Moved into new labs
May 2014
We have now shifted into freshly renovated labs in the Kline Chemistry Laboratory. The space is really nice, and kudos to the building team as well as to the eternally patient students who tolerated two lab moves within a year. We are now making progress at full speed in the new space!
Congratulations to Dr. Sarina Bellows
March 2014
A big congrats to our newest group graduate, Sarina Bellows, who completed her Ph.D. on new ligands, new reactions, and lots of computations. We look forward to more great chemistry accomplishments in the future!
New paper in Chemical Science
January 2014
Karen Chiang's paper on the details of reactivity of iron complexes with N2 was published in Chemical Science. This paper is a great demonstration of how multiple iron atoms work together to bind N2 effectively.
Welcome to new group members!
December 2013
We have been joined by first-year graduate students Dan DeRosha and Sean McWilliams, and undergraduate students Gia Velasquez and Emma Brennan-Wydra. We look forward to working with you.
Paper on alkene isomerization in JACS
December 2013
Congratulations to Chi on the acceptance of his paper on cobalt-catalyzed isomerization of alkenes, which will appear in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
Pat receives Blavatnik Young Investigator Award
November 2013
Pat was proud to receive a Blavatnik Young Investigator Award from the New York Academy of Sciences. The goal of the awards, according to Blavatnik Foundation Head Len Blavatnik, is “to recognize and celebrate exceptional young scientists - to make them examples of what the next generation of young scientists should strive to achieve.”
Welcome to postdoc Richard Lewis
October 2013
Richard did his Ph.D. at the University of California - Santa Barbara, where he worked on novel coordination complexes with Trevor Hayton.
Congratulations to Team Imido
September 2013
Congratulations to Team Imido for the acceptance of their paper on catalytic nitrene transfer at Organometallics. This was a long road that started with kinetics by Nate Eckert, then Ryan Cowley, then Matt Golder, and finally Malik Al-Afyouni did the finishing touches to reach the finish line.
Congratulations to Sarina Bellows
August 2013
Congratulations to Sarina Bellows on her first-author paper describing computations on spin-state changes in β-hydride elimination reactions. She has been very brave as our first student to really dive into DFT computations, and this paper in Organometallics shows that it has paid off.
Welcome to postdoc Ilija Coric
August 2013
A warm welcome to Dr. Ilija Coric, who is joining the group as a postdoc. Ilija comes to us from the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, where he did Ph.D. research with Ben List.
